Comments on: Building a basic controller for the VideoDisplay control http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/ A bunch of examples for Adobe Flex and ActionScript Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:28:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Erik http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-17336 Erik Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:52:42 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-17336 Hi Excellent blog, always checks this site out before doing anything new in flex. I have tried building a videoplayer witch uses the videodisplay component but I cant get the scrubber to work in a good way. I use streaming and FMS and for some reason using the timeheadTime dosent work any good. And I think its becouse of the buffertime being to long and commands being stored. anyway I have desided to build my own videodisplay, now what Im wondering is should I build it on the video class or the videoplayer class? What is smartest? Many thanks /Erik Hi

Excellent blog, always checks this site out before doing anything new in flex.

I have tried building a videoplayer witch uses the videodisplay component but I cant get the scrubber to work in a good way. I use streaming and FMS and for some reason using the timeheadTime dosent work any good. And I think its becouse of the buffertime being to long and commands being stored.

anyway I have desided to build my own videodisplay, now what Im wondering is should I build it on the video class or the videoplayer class? What is smartest?

Many thanks
/Erik

]]> By: Krishna Revadigar http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-17295 Krishna Revadigar Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:25:12 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-17295 My mail id is krishna.revadigar@gmail.com My mail id is krishna.revadigar@gmail.com

]]> By: Krishna http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-17294 Krishna Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:23:25 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-17294 Hi, I am a newbie to flex world. I have to build a video player something like what you have built. I have just downloaded the code but I couldn't compile and run it. It would be very kind of you, if you send me details about steps to compile it and run it. Please include details about folder structure, what command to run to compile it, any environment variable to set. Any steps to importing it in to flex builder Thanking you in advance, Regards, Krishna (A newbie to Flex world, but want to learn more within sort time) Hi,
I am a newbie to flex world. I have to build a video player something like what you have built. I have just downloaded the code but I couldn’t compile and run it.
It would be very kind of you, if you send me details about steps to compile it and run it.
Please include details about folder structure, what command to run to compile it, any environment variable to set. Any steps to importing it in to flex builder

Thanking you in advance,

Regards,
Krishna
(A newbie to Flex world, but want to learn more within sort time)

]]> By: Titoine http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-15691 Titoine Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:00:37 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-15691 Hi again, Finally I found out where the problem was. It had almost nothing to do with the player. I was using a php uploading script and had issues with start_session(). (Basically, when i clicked on a link, the link worked but the php file i was calling was stalling when calling session_start(), probably because my upload script, where i was calling session_start() too, had not completed.) Sorry if I gave anny doubts on this player wich works really fine. Hi again,
Finally I found out where the problem was.
It had almost nothing to do with the player.
I was using a php uploading script and had issues with start_session().
(Basically, when i clicked on a link, the link worked but the php file i was calling was stalling when calling session_start(), probably because my upload script, where i was calling session_start() too, had not completed.)

Sorry if I gave anny doubts on this player wich works really fine.

]]> By: Titoine http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-15639 Titoine Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:43:41 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-15639 Hi, I was making a player based on yours but i'm facing a problem : The files I'm playing are really big (like 30 Mbytes). So the player takes some time to load it, wich is not the problem. The problem is when I use the player in my HTML page, when a movie is loading, all the other HTML links are useles in my page. If I click on a link, it will only "resolve" when the video file has finished loading. Whould you have any idea if there was a way of avoiding that? Is there a way of detecting if the user is trying to navigate? (Sorry for my bad english) (Ho and by the way thank you for all those nice examples !) Hi,
I was making a player based on yours but i’m facing a problem :
The files I’m playing are really big (like 30 Mbytes).
So the player takes some time to load it, wich is not the problem.
The problem is when I use the player in my HTML page, when a movie is loading, all the other HTML links are useles in my page.
If I click on a link, it will only “resolve” when the video file has finished loading.
Whould you have any idea if there was a way of avoiding that?
Is there a way of detecting if the user is trying to navigate?
(Sorry for my bad english)
(Ho and by the way thank you for all those nice examples !)

]]> By: zilvester http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-14656 zilvester Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:42:49 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-14656 lovely simple and elegant solution, thanx! - i'll try to make my playhead just as sweet (!) Funny, i had "change ‘skin’ to ‘upSkin’ to display it properly." as did Tomek (your first commenter)... i *also* need to add overSkin to the styles. p.s. i love the famfamfam icons... great to see them here too :) lovely simple and elegant solution, thanx! - i’ll try to make my playhead just as sweet (!) Funny, i had “change ‘skin’ to ‘upSkin’ to display it properly.” as did Tomek (your first commenter)… i *also* need to add overSkin to the styles.

p.s. i love the famfamfam icons… great to see them here too :)

]]> By: Narek http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-14045 Narek Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:07:00 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-14045 May be that's a most nice video display component. I look may be everithing but only this one is looking perfectly. Thank You! May be that’s a most nice video display component. I look may be everithing but only this one is looking perfectly.

Thank You!

]]> By: Erko Bridee > FLV Player little more complet http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-7786 Erko Bridee > FLV Player little more complet Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:16:56 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-7786 i forgot to say a detail in the previous comment, this component was based on this example :D i forgot to say a detail in the previous comment, this component was based on this example :D

]]> By: Erko Bridee > FLV Player little more complet http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-7785 Erko Bridee > FLV Player little more complet Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:15:17 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-7785 Hi, i develop one little more complet FLV Player component and deploy at my blog, where have 2 examples http://erkobridee.com/2008/03/21/adobe-flex-componente-flv-player/ developed using Flex 2, project made at Flex Builder 2 ps.: project avalible to download, with use examples A suggestion, use the translator of Google, Portuguese to English Hi,

i develop one little more complet FLV Player component
and deploy at my blog, where have 2 examples

http://erkobridee.com/2008/03/21/adobe-flex-componente-flv-player/

developed using Flex 2, project made at Flex Builder 2

ps.: project avalible to download, with use examples
A suggestion, use the translator of Google, Portuguese to English

]]> By: robfitz http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-4218 robfitz Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:05:09 +0000 http://blog.flexexamples.com/2007/08/05/building-a-basic-controller-for-the-videodisplay-control/#comment-4218 Hey Peter -- Good articles/blog/stuff. A comment and a question. The cuepoint example you give a couple comments up seems to imply that you can use cues as a way to start from the middle of a video. Jumping to the cue point only works if the video is loaded up to that point (or if you're running a media server, I suppose). If you set the cues in your example to 10 and 17, it just sits at 0. While it seems you have moved on from VideoDisplay, I am wondering if there are any techniques or resources for optimizing playback. I'm just playing a single video, but the video and audio chop and jump every so often. The video jump alone wouldn't be too terrible, but the audio pop makes it really disruptive. I've bound a couple actions to the playhead position. It's really light stuff, but that is the only bit of the code that seems immediately suspicious. Any suggestion would be tremendously appreciated. Thanks, rob@fuzzwich.com Hey Peter — Good articles/blog/stuff. A comment and a question.

The cuepoint example you give a couple comments up seems to imply that you can use cues as a way to start from the middle of a video. Jumping to the cue point only works if the video is loaded up to that point (or if you’re running a media server, I suppose). If you set the cues in your example to 10 and 17, it just sits at 0.

While it seems you have moved on from VideoDisplay, I am wondering if there are any techniques or resources for optimizing playback. I’m just playing a single video, but the video and audio chop and jump every so often. The video jump alone wouldn’t be too terrible, but the audio pop makes it really disruptive.

I’ve bound a couple actions to the playhead position. It’s really light stuff, but that is the only bit of the code that seems immediately suspicious.

Any suggestion would be tremendously appreciated.

Thanks,
rob@fuzzwich.com

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